Chemistry:Seble Wagaw
Seble-Hiwot Wagaw is an American organic chemist who is a senior leader at AbbVie pharmaceuticals outside Chicago, IL.[1]
Background and Education
Wagaw was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and emigrated to the United States in 1974.[2] Her father, Teshome Gebremichael Wagaw, was a faculty member at the University of Michigan for 28 years, and her mother is Tsehai Wolde-Tsadik.[3] She is one of three children, with an older brother and sister.[4] She received her Bachelor's and MS degrees in Chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1994, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry with Stephen L. Buchwald at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999.[5] Her research in the Buchwald lab utilized chiral complexes of Palladium to forge new carbon-nitrogen bonds on Aryl rings.[6]
Career
As a Senior Director for process research and R&D at Abbott Laboratories (later AbbVie) for her entire career, Wagaw has published research on enantiomerically enriched lead molecules using Pybox ligands.[7] She has led exploration into new technologies for her process group, including explorations of flow chemistry and commercial-scale electrochemistry.[8]
She is on the advisory board for Asymchem and co-founded the Cross-industry Women's chemical process group.[5]
Awards and recognition
- 1995 - Ford Foundation pre-doctoral fellowship, MIT[9]
- 2004 - Women of Color Research investigators[10]
- 2013 - American Chemical Society WCC Rising Stars Award[11]
References
- ↑ Myers, Brian (2023-03-06). "Seble H. Wagaw's 2022 NOS Lecture is Available On-Line" (in en-US). https://www.organicdivision.org/blog/news/seble-h-wagaws-2022-nos-lecture-is-available-on-line/.
- ↑ "Events | U-M LSA Chemistry" (in en). https://lsa.umich.edu/chem/news-events/all-events.detail.html/50546-11796687.html.
- ↑ "Teshome G. Wagaw Obituary (1930 - 2019) Ann Arbor News". https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/teshome-wagaw-obituary?id=9745536.
- ↑ "Seble-Hiwot Wagaw | Ann Arbor District Library". https://aadl.org/taxonomy/term/109187.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Asymchem Laboratories(Tianjin) Co., Ltd.". http://www.asymchem.com/gykly/advisory-board/board-of-scientific-advisor/.
- ↑ "Events | U-M LSA Chemistry" (in en). https://lsa.umich.edu/chem/news-events/all-events.detail.html/50546-11796687.html.
- ↑ Barnes, David M.; Ji, Jianguo; Fickes, Michael G.; Fitzgerald, Michael A.; King, Steven A.; Morton, Howard E.; Plagge, Frederick A.; Preskill, Margo et al. (2002-11-01). "Development of a Catalytic Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds to Nitroalkenes for the Synthesis of Endothelin-A Antagonist ABT-546. Scope, Mechanism, and Further Application to the Synthesis of the Antidepressant Rolipram". Journal of the American Chemical Society 124 (44): 13097–13105. doi:10.1021/ja026788y. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 12405837. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja026788y.
- ↑ "Amping up the pharma lab: Drug companies explore the potential of electrochemistry" (in en). https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/medicinal-chemistry/Amping-pharma-lab-Drug-companies/97/i43.
- ↑ "1995 Ford Foundation Fellowships" (in en). http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=07251995.
- ↑ (in en) Science Spectrum. Career Communications Group. September–October 2004. https://books.google.com/books?id=MEl9SlflOLMC&dq=seble+wagaw+advisor&pg=PA44.
- ↑ "WCC Names Rising Stars | Chemical & Engineering News". https://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i36/WCC-Names-Rising-Stars.html.
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